Lord Snowdon: Royal refusenik
His whole life has been a counterblast to royal dignity, royal mystique, royal protocol and royal unassailability
By John Walsh
Published: 27 August 2005
It is always a little awkward watching one's wife committing adultery. It can become tiresome watching her at parties drinking, smoking dope and engaging in long sapphic kisses with an American bisexual heiress. But it's surely worst of all watching yourself being impersonated by an actor as an aggressive, louche and faithless husband. So spare a thought for Lord Snowdon, as Channel 4 unveils its scandalous £2m drama, The Queen's Sister, to be screened in November, about the raunchy heyday of Princess Margaret in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies.
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